短篇小说 | About Magnanimous-Incident Literature

2023年10月22日

All my life, from boyhood up, I have had the habit of reading a certain set of anecdotes, written in the quaint vein of The World's ingenious Fabulist, for the lesson they taught me and the pleasure they gave me.

短篇小说 | About Barbers

2023年10月21日

This barber fell down and died of apoplexy two hours later. I am waiting over a day for my revenge -- I am going to attend his funeral.

短篇小说 | A Little Cloud

2023年5月14日

Could he write something original? He was not sure what idea he wished to express, but the thought that a poetic moment had touched him took life within him like an infant hope.

短篇小说 | The Darling

2023年5月13日

Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought.

短篇小说 | A Call

2023年5月12日

A Call (1906) is Cooke's charming book about two boys, Abner and Ross, fortified with advice from Hints and Helps to Young Men in Social and Business Relations before calling on the two Claiborne sisters.

短篇小说 | The Namesake

2023年5月10日

The Namesake was published in McClure's Magazine in 1907. "For the first time I felt the pull of race and blood and kindred, and felt beating within me things that had not begun with me. It was as if the earth under my feet had grasped and rooted me, and were pouring its essence into me."

短篇小说 | Mademoiselle Fifi

2023年5月9日

Mademoiselle Fifi is the nicknamed for the handsome, yet boorish, and effeminate German captain, who gets his just deserts. The story was set during the Franco-Prussian War, published in 1882.